Graydon, The 1st and the 4th are really nice. Plus, I've seen many males over the years, but never paid attention to what the female looked like. Now that is interesting! Regards, Bob S.
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Graydon <[email protected]> wrote: > Female red-winged blackbirds spend most of their time invisible in a > mass of reeds. Yesterday's zoo trip -- hooray!, ponds with viewing > platforms -- produced, along with about six male blackbirds crazed with > spring and highly visible, one visible female. > > http://picasaweb.google.com/graydonish/Blackbird#slideshow > > Taking pictures of songbirds generally makes me feel that f2.8 is very > slow and 800mm is awfully short, but these mostly came out OK. 800mm/F8 > Rokinon mirror lens, K20D, ISO200, tripod and cable release. Shutter > speeds between 1/40 and 1/100. > > -- Graydon > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
